Fig. 3: Jaguar population size, threat index (TI) and prioritization diagram for jaguar conservation across the Brazilian Amazon.
Distribution of jaguar population size (log10 x + 1) inside protected areas (A), threat index (TI) and values per protected area type (B) and bivariate plot between the threat index and conservative jaguar population sizes inside 447 protected areas across the Brazilian Amazon (C). Acronyms are ST-HP: short-term high-priority quadrant (delimited by highlighted gray-frame) and the respective top-ranking 10 areas that should be prioritized in each approach based on the extreme of distribution thresholds by a tangential line. We also identified additional Amazonian PAs that should be prioritized for jaguar conservation in the short to medium term according to our prioritization quadrants (highlighted gray-frames; see Supplementary Data 3). The background map in (A) and (B) was produced by the authors and represents the land cover and land use dated from 201998. WB water bodies, NF natural forest. 1Open areas include non-forest natural vegetation, farming, and non-vegetation areas. For all land cover and land-use classes, see ref. 98. Fernanda D. Abra kindly provided jaguar drawing used in this figure. All other elements in the figure were created by the authors using R code.
